Despite the web spinner’s popularity, no exhibitor was betting on “Spider-Man 3” breaking the all-time first-weekend record in Spain, held by “The DaVinci Code,” which went out on 750 for $11.9 million.

Programmed against “Spider-Man 3” in Germany is a slew of local and foreign arthouse pics and one Ameri-can comedy.

Top among them is X Verleih’s “Shop-pen,” a local comedy from Ralf Wes-thoff about desperate singles who turn to speed-dating to find love.

Pic has won critical praise across the board.

“Ralf Westhoff has written wonderful dialogue in a way that allows everyone to find themselves in one of the [many] characters,” wrote daily Die Welt, while Die Tageszeitung called it “an absolutely must-see film.”

Eagle Pictures is taking Ray Liotta thriller “Slow Burn” off the shelf and releasing it on 130, while Moviemax is outing local slasher-meister Lamberto Bava’s “Ghost Son” on 80.

Spirituality-themed “7 Km da Gerusalemme,” previously pulled due to a legal spat with Coca Cola (which objected to scene in which Jesus drank a can of Coke) is being outed by Mediafilm on 50 with that scene edited out.

Argentinian political drama “Buenos Aires, 1977”, a Cannes contender last year, is coming out on 20 via Do-menico Procacci’s Fandango.

In the U.K., Shane Meadows’ superbly-reviewed Brit pic “This is England!” is going great guns from its limited-release bow due to strong word of mouth.

The Optimum Releasing pic about skinheads growing up in 1980’s Eng-land took $684,506 in its first seven days and gets an expansion from 62 to 83 prints this weekend. From May 11 it will be playing on over 100 according to Optimum.

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BERLIN — Sony’s friendly neighbor-hood wall-crawler is set to wrap Europe up in his web this weekend following “Spider-Man 3’s” record-smashing openings. Spidey’s latest outing was the only player in Gallic cinemas this week. Pic had nothing even resembling competition as it shattered opening day records, taking in over $6.4 million on 850 prints for […]

BERLIN — Sony’s friendly neighbor-hood wall-crawler is set to wrap Europe up in his web this weekend following “Spider-Man 3’s” record-smashing openings. Spidey’s latest outing was the only player in Gallic cinemas this week. Pic had nothing even resembling competition as it shattered opening day records, taking in over $6.4 million on 850 prints for […]

BERLIN — Sony’s friendly neighbor-hood wall-crawler is set to wrap Europe up in his web this weekend following “Spider-Man 3’s” record-smashing openings. Spidey’s latest outing was the only player in Gallic cinemas this week. Pic had nothing even resembling competition as it shattered opening day records, taking in over $6.4 million on 850 prints for […]

BERLIN — Sony’s friendly neighbor-hood wall-crawler is set to wrap Europe up in his web this weekend following “Spider-Man 3’s” record-smashing openings. Spidey’s latest outing was the only player in Gallic cinemas this week. Pic had nothing even resembling competition as it shattered opening day records, taking in over $6.4 million on 850 prints for […]

BERLIN — Sony’s friendly neighbor-hood wall-crawler is set to wrap Europe up in his web this weekend following “Spider-Man 3’s” record-smashing openings. Spidey’s latest outing was the only player in Gallic cinemas this week. Pic had nothing even resembling competition as it shattered opening day records, taking in over $6.4 million on 850 prints for […]

BERLIN — Sony’s friendly neighbor-hood wall-crawler is set to wrap Europe up in his web this weekend following “Spider-Man 3’s” record-smashing openings. Spidey’s latest outing was the only player in Gallic cinemas this week. Pic had nothing even resembling competition as it shattered opening day records, taking in over $6.4 million on 850 prints for […]

BERLIN — Sony’s friendly neighbor-hood wall-crawler is set to wrap Europe up in his web this weekend following “Spider-Man 3’s” record-smashing openings. Spidey’s latest outing was the only player in Gallic cinemas this week. Pic had nothing even resembling competition as it shattered opening day records, taking in over $6.4 million on 850 prints for […]